lowdown

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n. 内幕, 真相

词形变化

lowdowns more lowdown 比较级 most lowdown 最高级

别名

low-down

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    inside information, the story or truth.

    真相

    内幕

    不可数

    All the reporters hoped to be the first to get the lowdown on the celebrity's marriage plans.

    here's the lowdown

    to give somebody the lowdown

  2. 2.

    A lowlife, a despicable person.

    不可数
adj.
  1. 1.

    Unfair; scoundrelly; shameful.

    lowdown tactics

  2. 2.

    seedy, sketchy, disreputable

  3. 3.

    down low; purporting to be heterosexual while engaged in sex with men.

adv.
  1. 1.

    Unfairly; dishonourably; in a deceitful or mean manner.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

dope poop

上位词 2

details inside information
形容词

同义词 6

low miserable funky scurvy abject scummy

近义相关 2

emotional contemptible

词源

Compound adjective of low + down in the sense of "humble" recorded in the 1540s, in the sense of "vulgar, far down the social scale" in 1888. Recorded as a noun in 1915 in the slang sense of secret or inside information.

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